I’d pay good money to never get another automatic update.
They seem to always jam the system, like the one that made a mess of our airports the other day.
I read that some companies don’t even try to work out all the bugs because they know they’ll find them faster once everyone’s using the new version! It was disappointing to find out we PAY for apps without knowing they’re using us to be beta testers, but it also made some sense.
Well I’ve got some updates that are actually good news. And from very unlikely sources – two organizations not known for their user-friendliness or communication skills – iaedp and CDR.
Update #1 from iaedp
If you don’t already know, iaedp holds the keys to Eating Disorder Specialist certification.
It’s been a whole ordeal with a lot of expensive extra hoops to jump through, kind of like grad school or changing the title on your car. It took a petition, a lawsuit, and some international relations to reduce those hoops significantly, and they are meaningful changes for anyone considering certification or already in the process.
The result is that starting now, certification no longer requires iaedp membership or attendance at the iaedp symposium. The application is also a bit less extensive (no case study required), but for many people, the expense of attending the symposium was prohibitive.
This doesn’t mean that certification or iaedp are perfect systems now – far from it – but it does make certification more accessible for people who are interested. And as we know from our work with individuals, once the capacity for change exists, further change may be possible down the road.
Update #2
CDR is the Committee on Dietetic Registration, the credentialing body for dietitians and technicians.
CDR just announced that “Expert Work” is now a form of continuing education credit.
Expert Work includes a bunch of things dietitians do – writing books, reviewing articles, speaking, teaching, creating courses – and now we can count up to 15 hours in a 5-year cycle.
(Side note, I feel the need to point out – yes, again – that CDR’s language all has a theme: periods, cycles, you know what I mean, even if you don’t want to.)
They also mentioned Research for a study or article and Professional Reading of peer-reviewed articles less than 5 years old have their own categories with higher limits per cycle.
What both these organizations’ updates have in common is they seem to make life easier – just a little bit easier, but I’ll take it – and recognize that life doesn’t always (ever?) fit into the tidy categories and form fields of an uncluttered mind.
Said another way, the updates reflect that the doers of the work should decide what’s important rather than the talkers in a boardroom making rules for all of us. And again, it’s a metaphor for what we do with patients… Respect their lived experiences and encourage real-world insights. How refreshing that professional organizations might be doing the same for us.
Do you have any updates to share? I’d love to hear what’s happening in your life.
My updates are mostly work-related.
Next month I host the Dietitian Speakers Make More Money Workshop here in Dallas, and I’ll start interviewing applicants for next year’s group in September. If you’d like to be considered, check out the scoop at DietitianSpeakers.com.
Then I’m off to Healing Your Inner Eater workshops in St. Louis in September and Boise in October. I’d love to see you at either of those or even at your own location. Info on the workshop is at HealingYourInnerEater.com or email me at the usual place – [email protected].
Hoping our paths will cross sometime soon,
Jessica